The AMVM is honored to be the recipient of the more than
4,000-volume book collection from the estate of Roger A.
Caras, who was president of the American Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, an Emmy-Award winning news
commentator, and author of more than five dozen books on
animals and wildlife, and of the Rare Book Collection from
the late Dr. Robert and Leona Shomer. Dr. Shomer was a New
Jersey veterinary historian.
The Shomer collection includes books related to veterinary
science and the study of animals dating from 1550 A.D. The
collection contains 1,100 books in various languages,
including English, French, Japanese, German, Italian, Latin,
and Arabic. The prize Shomer book is one written by Stubbs
entitled “The Anatomy of the Horse,” published in 1766. AMVM
is collaborating with Microsoft Inc., to digitize these
out-of-copyright Shomer books and make them available
through the AMVM website and the Internet.
The Caras book collection was donated to the AMVM by his
widow, Jill Barclay Caras. In addition to his books, the
Caras collection includes his personal scrapbooks recording
his trips around the world. Jill Caras, a member of the AMVM
board of directors, gifted her husband’s collection to the
AMVM in January of 2005. The ASPCA has provided financial
support for this collection.
The Roger A. Caras collection is being assembled in a
downstairs non-lending library for adults and in a
children’s section in the AMVM farmhouse and is being
organized by AMVM volunteers led by Judy Ressler, Chairman
of the Caras Library Collection, and Mrs. Caras.
American
Museum of Veterinary Medicine 5003A Main Street | Birdsboro, PA 19508
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The AMVM is honored to be the recipient of the more than
4,000-volume book collection from the estate of Roger A.
Caras, who was president of the American Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, an Emmy-Award winning news
commentator, and author of more than five dozen books on
animals and wildlife, and of the Rare Book Collection from
the late Dr. Robert and Leona Shomer. Dr. Shomer was a New
Jersey veterinary historian.
The Shomer collection includes books related to veterinary
science and the study of animals dating from 1550 A.D. The
collection contains 1,100 books in various languages,
including English, French, Japanese, German, Italian, Latin,
and Arabic. The prize Shomer book is one written by Stubbs
entitled “The Anatomy of the Horse,” published in 1766. AMVM
is collaborating with Microsoft Inc., to digitize these
out-of-copyright Shomer books and make them available
through the AMVM website and the Internet.
The Roger A. Caras collection is being assembled in a
downstairs non-lending library for adults and in a
children’s section in the AMVM farmhouse and is being
organized by AMVM volunteers led by Judy Ressler, Chairman
of the Caras Library Collection, and Mrs. Caras. 